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Private sector edges deeper in space – Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Times Free Press
by AP A halo forms around the top of the SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket as launches from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. A launch scheduled for Saturday will mark the first time a private company will send its …
NASA, SpaceX Aim To Launch Private Era In Orbit88.9 KETR
Testing Private Ship to the Space Station, and Wine, TooNew York Times
NASA Ponders Transporting Tourists to International Space StationWall Street Journal
Daily Mail -Washington Post
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 9:17 am
Giant turtle dined on crocodiles – TG Daily
TG Daily
TG Daily
Turtles the size of Smart cars once roamed the rivers in what is now Colombia, preying on creatures as large as crocodiles. North Carolina State University paleontologists originally uncovered the fossilized remains of the 60-million-year-old creature …
Prehistoric Turtle Big Enough to Eat Crocodiles DiscoveredPlanetSave.com
They didn't mess with ancient turtle the size of a carmsnbc.com
Huge Turtle Was Titanoboa's NeighborWired News
Eureka! Science News -News & Observer -Gizmodo
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 9:05 am
Verizon Technically Keeping Unlimited Data After All – Tom’s Guide
USA TODAY
Tom’s Guide
Grandfathered Verizon customers can keep their unlimited plan for a price… a hefty one, at that. Last year Verizon decided to terminate its unlimited data package for new customers, but current customers could still keep unlimited flow indefinitely.
Should angry Verizon subscribers ditch Big Red?CNET
Verizon retracts end to unlimited dataGreen Bay Press Gazette
Verizon: we're killing grandfathered unlimited 3G data plans (Updated)DVICE
Computerworld -USA TODAY -Reuters
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 9:02 am
Facebook IPO: After the Hype, Investors are Betting on Hope – TIME
TIME
TIME
By Sam Gustin | @samgustin | May 18, 2012 | + Eight years after launching Facebook in a Harvard dorm room, Mark Zuckerberg is about to pull off one of the most valuable stock offerings in US history — and the largest ever in tech — making him one of …
FACEBOOK FACE-OFF: IPO presents rare opportunity to prosper from ingenuity of …Washington Post
Facebook shares go on sale todayBoston Herald
Facebook's IPO one of world's largestMinnesota Public Radio
Green Bay Press Gazette
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 9:00 am
Space News: Solar eclipse this weekend – Lake County News
National Geographic
Lake County News
On Sunday, May 20, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming sunbeams across the Pacific side of Earth into fat crescents and thin rings of light. It's an annular solar eclipse, in which the Moon will cover as much as 94 percent of the sun.
Solar Eclipse Sunday – First in 18 YearsPatch.com
Fairbanks to see partial solar eclipseFairbanks Daily News-Miner
Sunday's partial solar eclipse is only the startSan Francisco Chronicle
Space.com -Washington Post -Los Angeles Times
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 8:54 am
Eduardo Saverin Moves to Singapore – Brooklyn Daily
ABC News
Brooklyn Daily
By Shavana Abruzzo Greedy billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin ditched the world's best nation for one of its worst by renouncing his American citizenship reportedly to live in Singapore — to avoid paying the kind of taxes that helped to …
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path ForwardNew York Times
Facebook's Saverin May Save $67 Million on US Tax BillBloomberg
Facebook's Eduardo Saverin lauds Mark Zuckerberg ahead of IPOEconomic Times
Wall Street Journal -Washington Post -TODAYonline
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 8:27 am
Google gives search a Knowledge Graph makeover (screenshots) – ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet
by ZDNet Author | May 17, 2012 11:02am PDT | Image 1 of 11 Google has revamped its search with results that show more information from its 500-million-item database of people, places, and things. Google says this Knowledge Graph is the first step in …
Google demonstrates its new KnowledgeVancouver Sun
Google revamps search, tries to think more like a personCNN
Google Knowledge Graph: The Birth of a Siri Rival?PCWorld
Washington Post -InformationWeek -eWeek
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 12:50 am
Scientists use satellite to track superflares on sun-like stars – Los Angeles Times
BBC News
Los Angeles Times
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times In case zombies, alien attacks and other unlikely threats aren't enough to keep your overactive imagination busy, scientists in this week's edition of the journal Nature are reporting on a real-life monster event: …
Colossal superflares erupt from sun-like starsmsnbc.com
Kepler telescope studies star superflaresBBC News
Stars like our sun can release "superflares," explosions of up to 10000 times …Space.com
SlashGear -Rappler -Discovery News
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Posted on 18 May 2012 | 12:05 am
The Ellison Files: Oracle Strikes Back – BusinessWeek
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BusinessWeek
By Ashlee Vance on May 16, 2012 Over the course of a few months in 2009, Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) top executives engaged in a furious debate. Intel (INTC) was considering halting production of its Itanium chip, a high-powered but expensive workhorse …
Oracle's Itanium Document Drop Catches HP With Its Pants DownReadWriteWeb
Oracle's Ellison, Intel CEO Otellini Top Witness List for Oracle, HP TrialeWeek
Oracle Flaunts HP Internal Memos in Battle of ItaniumWired News
CRN Australia -Inquirer
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Posted on 17 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
Facebook IPO fuels Bay Area spending boom – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The company's employees and investors are spending in advance of their big payday, fueling an economy that's already humming thanks to the Bay Area's thriving technology sector. Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is marked by a Hacker Way …
Silicon Valley: Please don't show offTimes of India
Wanted: A single Facebook millionaireCNET
Reticent Rich: Preferred Style in Silicon ValleyNew York Times
San Jose Mercury News -San Francisco Chronicle -Utalkmarketing
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Posted on 17 May 2012 | 12:02 pm
Tech News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Facebook’s IPO one of world’s largest
Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of “likes” are worth on Wall Street.
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 4:07 am
China rejects US ruling in solar dumping case
China’s government on Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment and Chinese manufacturers warned proposed punitive tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy.
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 7:50 am
The next digital image revolution?
Despite the explosive innovation around digital picture-taking, the end result has actually changed very little. A photo is still a photo. And a poorly focused photo is still as bad as ever. Ren Ng aims to fix that.
Posted on 9 May 2012 | 5:57 am
$19,000 electric Quadrofoil is a sports car for the water
What’s the next best thing for those of us who can’t afford a $190,000 hovercraft? Who knows. But if you have at least 10% of that figure, you could get yourself a Quadrofoil — an electric vehicle that looks like a crab. … Continue reading →
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 2:00 am
Study: A cup (or six) of coffee a day may keep death at bay
Are you an avid coffee drinker? Here’s something you can use as an argument every time someone warns you against drinking your third cup of coffee for the day: Coffee may actually add some years to your life. A paper published recently … Continue reading →
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 1:53 am
Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us the Closing Price?
When you get a lot of really smart people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the James Sureowicki business science classic The Wisdom of Crowds, and a host of corroborating authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, knows that.
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 12:11 am
Reports: HP poised to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs
Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 1:31 am
As Facebook grows, millions say, ‘no, thanks’
Don’t try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won’t find her there.
Posted on 17 May 2012 | 5:52 pm
Yahoo’s new boss revamps recently created division
Yahoo’s new boss is reorganizing a consumer-commerce division created by recently dispatched CEO Scott Thompson.
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 2:17 am
Buffett’s Berkshire to buy Media General papers
Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.
Posted on 17 May 2012 | 6:48 pm
